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4 Reasons to Move to Shopify Plus

Your enterprise business sees thousands of transactions and sales daily and you want to make sure the platform your eCommerce web store works exactly right for you. While Shopify is known to host many small and medium size businesses, Shopify Plus offers an enterprise solution for businesses looking for a platform that can handle a high volume but also has the customization and support like a small business. Some of the biggest industry leaders host their businesses on Shopify Plus. Some of these include the Los Angeles Lakers, Hoot suite, Tesla, and Red Bull.

Completely Customizable

Your brand is unique, and you want your eCommerce site to reflect your brand’s uniqueness. Shopify plus is a great platform to host your enterprise business on if you want complete customization. On Shopify Plus you can define the layout, content, and branding whichever way you prefer. Shopify Plus also offers curated apps exclusively to Shopify customers. These downloadable apps make it easier to run your enterprise business without any of the hassles. These apps especially created for Shopify customers allow to run your business more effectively, and efficiently. If you’re looking to do something to your eCommerce site that isn’t feasible to you, Shopify partners with designers and developers that work specifically for Shopify. These designers and developers can help create the eCommerce website you’ve envisioned.

White Glove Treatment

One of the best features of Shopify Plus is their white glove treatment to every eCommerce business they host. Whether a smaller business or an enterprise customer, Shopify is dedicated to providing dedicated assistance and support with their Shopify Plus accounts. Shopify has account managers that oversee the daily operations of your e-store. They even take it a step further by working daily with you to improve your business as a whole. Shopify provides 24/7 support to their accounts with the Shopify Plus priority support phone number and email. Shopify’s dedication to their customers no matter the size allows Shopify customers to build their eCommerce businesses with the knowledge that they are always there to support and assist them.

Your Orders

Your eCommerce business sees thousands of transactions per day. You need an eCommerce platform that candle handle that type of volume easily and efficiently. Shopify Plus is built to handle intense amounts of traffic and sales that enterprise businesses are used to seeing every day. As an eCommerce business, there is no limit to the sales volumes, the number of products, or even bandwidth your store needs to keep up with demand. Shopify Plus can handle up to 500K hits to your eCommerce website per minute. Their payment gateways accept payments in a variety of ways. Shopify Plus accepts over 70 different payment gateways which allow businesses to sell in different parts of the world and in different languages.

Fully-Hosted Platform

Unlike self-hosted platforms, Shopify is a full-hosted platform. This means in comparison to self-hosted platforms, Shopify Plus comes with dedicated support staff that works to make sure your website never goes down. Shopify Plus is also Level 1 PCI DSS compliant. The sensitive information a customer enters such as shipping and billing information and credit/debit card information is protected by the same level of security as banks do. Shopify Plus also takes it a step further by making sure their account holders are protected from hackers or fraud. They provide security to eCommerce businesses as well as their customers.

 

Shopify Plus is not just for small and middle sized companies. Their features cater to enterprise businesses and the thousands of sales and heavy traffic they are used to seeing every day. As an approved premier partner, 1Digital has worked with Shopify and Shopify Plus businesses to create custom eCommerce websites. We’re a trusted partner and no project is too big or small. If you have any customizations needed on your Shopify Plus platform, contact us today and we’ll help your dream eCommerce store come to life!

 

 

 

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BigCommerce Pros

  • All-in-one SaaS solution that provides hosting and templates for building and customizing a storefront, along with analytical, inventory management, and marketing tools.
  • The platform is supported by a huge ecosystem of designers, developers, digital marketing professionals, and thousands of apps. The open API is also compatible with countless third-party tools.
  • With multiple subscription plans available, starting at $29.95, BigCommerce can be both affordable and highly scalable.
  • BigCommerce does not charge transaction fees.

BigCommerce Cons

  • BigCommerce does not natively support additional languages. To do so you will need to integrate a third-party app.
  • BigCommerce imposes yearly sales limits; if your website sells more than the threshold you’ll be automatically upgraded to a higher plan, incurring additional (and potentially unexpected) costs.
  • There are a limited number of free themes available (though many premium themes are available for purchase, and the large BigCommerce ecosystem supports developers who can design and code custom themes and templates).

Shopify Pros

  • The Shopify platform is a hosted, SaaS platform that is ideal for those that are not technically savvy. The website builder is easy to use, even for those with no coding or development experience. It is also compatible with a variety of free themes and integrates easily with countless apps and third-party tools.
  • Shopify offers excellent, 24/7 support and a wide range of robust marketing and inventory management tools.
  • Shopify supports a huge network of developers, designers, and digital marketers; the so-called Shopify ecosystem. There are also over 7,000 Shopify apps, along with countless others that are compatible.
  • Even though it is a templated SaaS platform, it is still relatively easy to make basic customizations to Shopify websites though its easy-to-use website builder. The available themes are also designed to be editing-friendly so you can make basic changes.

Shopify Cons

  • Shopify charges transaction fees, depending on your subscription plan.
  • While Shopify does have a built-in blog, the native blog is lacking in content marketing functionality, with inflexible layouts, an outdated blog editor, and no native option to create blog categories.
  • Migration from Shopify is not particularly easy to do. All you can do is export a CSV file and use that to support the migration, so it is best handled by eCommerce migration professionals.
  • Both apps and paid themes (though there are a lot of them) can be pricey.

Magento Pros

  • Because Magento is an open-source eCommerce platform, it is effectively limitless in the scope of customizations that can be made. You’re limited by your development skills. As a result of its open-source nature, it also offers excellent omnichannel capabilities.
  • Magento supports a large community of hundreds of thousands of developers around the world, so help is available.
  • Magento offers helpful regulatory and compliance features, such as a GDPR extension, which is useful for businesses working with European customers. Magento also supports select tax and accounting functionalities.
  • The granular level of control you have over the structure and functionality of your website makes it easy (though resource-intensive) to produce a hyper-optimized store, with respect to SEO, landing page optimization, and conversion-rate optimization.

Magento Cons

  • Magento demands an extremely high level of technical acumen and can be extremely resource intensive and expensive to manage.
  • The platform requires users to manage their own hosting, and requires them to keep up with platform version and security updates.
  • Magento is far more difficult to manage and customize than most SaaS platforms, and it is very difficult (nearly impossible) for someone with no coding/development experience to launch and manage a Magento store.

Volusion Pros

  • Volusion is fully-hosted and fairly affordable, and does not claim transaction fees.
  • Volusion offers abandoned cart recovery tools, SEO tools, a mobile app, is a secure platform, has a native review feature, and accepts a wide range of payment methods in multiple currencies.
  • Volusion has powerful inventory management and marketing tools, including product videos, suggested products, and “deal of the day” features.
  • Volusion offers 24/7 customer support for all plans.

Volusion Cons

  • Volusion offers a limited theme selection and only 11 are free.
  • Volusion only offers limited native functionality and has no built-in blog.
  • While building a store with Volusion is fairly easy and straightforward, some users will find it very hard to make customizations to the platform without extensive development experience. Other users even say the the editor is somewhat confusing to use.